Our McGawesome Life: June 2013

Sunday, June 16, 2013

SU Graduation

It's hard to believe I am now finished with my Ed.D.--dissertation submitted and approved, all course work done, comps passed. I think it will take a while for it to really sink in that I have finished the program. It will be nice to start with a summer without homework, papers, or research. Although I love the SU library, it will be nice to not have to go there each day :)

Here are some highlights from our graduation party and the graduation itself.

Monday, June 10, 2013

30th Birthday

Hard to believe that the big 3-0 is already here! Although the celebrations were sober on my part, I had a great time celebrating with friends and family!! Friday night Pat and I enjoyed a great dinner at The Melting Pot. Neither of us had been there before and enjoyed the food and the novelty of fondue. We didn't quite realize it was so much food, or that you actually cooked your own meat :) We loved the evening together and opportunity for a fun date night.

In the morning I did a great hike around Deception Pass with the other birthday girls Elaine and Christen, as well as Erica, Madison, and Rachelle. We loved the hike--easy at parts, exercise at parts--and the views around the park. After our hike we enjoyed a great lunch complete the cupcakes compliments of Elaine! For dinner my family and I went to the Chili Parlor. Ceej hooked us up with great food, as always! Some friends came to meet us for drinks after. Although I forgot to take pics for the most part we got a few as we celebrated.

Sunday we had a great day with my many of my Cohort members on Tana's tugboat. We cruised around Ballard, Fremont, and Lake Union out on the water. It was a beautiful day to be out on the water and it was super fun to be on a tugboat. Pat talked with Tana's husband about the engine and other random engineering stuff :) Hard to believe my time with my cohort is coming to an end...but also exciting to be getting so close to graduation.

Here are pictures from a great weekend!!

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Baby McGah

We are very excited that Baby McGah will be joining us around December 1st!! This Spring has been full of so many full celebrations and accomplishments, we are thrilled that making it through the first trimester of pregnancy can be added to the list! As of today we are almost 15 weeks pregnant, have heard the heartbeat, had an ultrasound (got verification there was just one in there, not two!!), and have began the transition to maternity clothes. We are excited to find out the gender come the middle of July and once the school years are over, we will switch over the guest room/office to the nursery. We are also loving being the third of my siblings to have kids...we have all the furniture for the nursery and more already :)

Seeing the ultrasound was pretty amazing. The baby was moving around the whole time, loved having her/his fist by it's face, and has all the major body parts (2 arms, 2 legs, head, abdomen, etc.). It was so fun to just watch the little baby moving around. Everything seemed much more real during and after the ultrasound. It is amazing how much s/he already looks like a baby, even though s/he is sooo small still. Ann shared with us that when Pat was a baby he also loved looking at his fist...maybe it runs in the family. One funny moment in the ultrasound was when they finally let me pee, I come back to the room and the screen is now in color and the ultrasound tech is taking an ultrasound of her forearm. Pat and her are discussing blood flow and the various ways to measure it with ultrasound technology. Apparently they were just fine without me and the baby in the room :)

Here are a few fun pictures from the last few months...